867: Deep Dive on macOS 27 and Siri AI

So Mac OS 27, David, it is out.

Yeah.

And I'm curious.

We're going to talk about a bunch of the features.

What... is your etiquette from release candidate, beta period before it, across your devices.

What is your process of that, from beta to release candidate? How do you run that on your Macs?

I am more flagrant than most people.

I will say that.

And it's funny because some of our fellow podcast friends talk about how they got older and wiser.

I'm older than all of them, and I install the beta probably more than most of them do.

But I do have backup devices.

This year, at your urging, frankly, I bought a used iPhone Air.

So I ran the earliest beta on that as a secondary device, one which I'm very tempted to turn in in a couple of weeks to get myself a new expensive iPhone.

But I ran it for a few weeks.

But this year, the betas were very mild.

They really weren't that you know, breaking.

Everything kind of worked.

I didn't really have any problems.

So pretty early in the process, I switched my carry phone over.

And I make a lot of videos on them in the Max Barkey Labs, sharing off the new features, how things work, you know, early impressions.

And we do a lot of meetups, so I want to be able to talk about it intelligently.

So I kind of like getting on my carry phone as soon as possible because...

You know, iOS is kind of where the action is, and you need to use the stuff to really be able to talk about it.

So very early, I'd say probably about six weeks into the betas, I went over all my main carry phone.

How about you? Let's just talk about phones first.